Today there were clouds in the east, so we missed the sunrise, but the moon was setting in the west and it produced colours and rays as it went down, just like a sunset.
The weather was beautiful all day and the sea has been calm ever since we headed across the Indian Ocean. Today we pass the halfway mark between Fremantle and Mauritius. We will arrive in Port Louis on Thursday at 4am. The ship is travelling at 21 knots (39 kmh) and the temperature goes from 20C to 26C.
The early morning deck hands start before light every day, washing outside windows and floors, wiping hand rails, setting out the deck chairs, making sure everything is shipshape before most of the passengers are up.
There were two Easter Eggs on our bed this morning.
At 9:30am we attended an interdenominational Easter Service in the Royal Court Theatre, which was attended by about 150 people. It was led by the ship's chaplain, an Episcopalian from Tampa, Florida, who spoke about his trip to the Holy Land and how it affected his faith. He said Easter Sunday is only about faith. We sang some good resurrection hymns. The Catholic Service was at 11am. We caught the tail end of a talk about the African wars (Zulu and Boer) in the other theatre and spent the rest of the morning on Deck 12, which was less crowded than Deck 7.
At noon the Boardwalk Cafe served lunch, and again we found it more pleasant than eating inside in the King's Court buffet.
At 1:45 we went back down tp the Royal Court Theatre and took a quick photo before the show began.
We were entertained by a 25 year old pianist from the Yorkshire Dales called Adam Allinson, who resembled TinTin. He told us he was inspired by his grandparents to play music from the shows. Their favourite was Moon River. He asked for favourites from Les Miserables and people went for Bring Him Home and I Dreamed a Dream. Afterwards, Malcolm finished Victor Hugo's lengthy analysis of Waterloo and got back to the story of Jean Valjean.
We had dinner with Joan and Geoff, who had been a Master on P and O ships, and listened briefly to the Dixieland Band in the Wintergarden.
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